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John Lennon - The Messenger [DVD] [1969]

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  • Actors: John Lennon
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Exempt
  • Studio: Whe Europe Limited
  • DVD Release Date: 27 May 2002
  • Run Time: 55 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000063KKO
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 91,204 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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A collection of Lennon interview footage comprising a DVD, audio CD and 32-page "super colour" booklet, John Lennon: The Messenger is rather optimistically billed as the "Essential John Lennon", an impression the makers hope to consolidate through imperiously smart packaging. Be sure to read the small print on the back, however. This is an unofficial programme and as such does not contain any music or performances by either the Beatles or John Lennon. Where music does occur, it's in the form of Beatles-esque jingle-jangle courtesy of the splendidly named Dennis Pugsley and the Overtures.

One has to sympathise with the strictures imposed on those attempting an independent take on the Beatles' jealously guarded legacy. However, the crass opening to this programme--featuring a clip of Lennon explaining how safe he feels in New York, followed by a burst of shotgun fire to simulate his 1980 assassination--instantly forfeits any goodwill. Swaying back and forth in time from new footage surrounding his murder, to mid-60s Beatlemania, to Lennon explaining why he sent back his MBE, to footage of John and Yoko's "Peace and Love Bed-in", the programme feels like it has yet to go through any sort of editing process, and has been spliced together randomly from bits of available interview tape and old TV excerpts. There's no attempt to place Lennon or his utterings in any sort of context. In retrospective, his pacifist stunts and proclamations seem at once naive and ill-expressed, yet also extraordinary and inspirational compared to the inertia of subsequent rock celebs. However, these are conclusions you have to come to for yourself after rummaging through the rough ramblings here.

On the DVD: John Lennon: The Messenger consists of cobbled-together decades-old interview material that hardly benefits from DVD presentation. There are "bonus" text-only biography and discographies, as well as an additional audio CD thrown together as haphazardly as the DVD from sundry old Beatles/Lennon interviews, in which you're left to figure out for yourself where they are and what they are talking about. --David Stubbs

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1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid this DVD!!!!, 6 Aug 2004
By Paul Netten (Aberdeen United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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Being a Lennon fan I bought this unaware that it was gonna be of such poor quality. It has been haphazardly edited from source material that leaves a lot to be desired, with no structure or any time-lines prevailing.

This is an example of someone using Lennon's name to make a fast buck, avoid at all costs.

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Not as amazing as i'd expected., 15 May 2003
Sadly this DVD is of quite a poor quality. I don't believe it has that much "new" material on it for the fans, and is basically all made up of news-reels from the 70's and early 80's. However, if watching news of John Lennon's death in "DVD glory" is your thing, then maybe this DVD is for you. It wasn't really my idea of fun though...shame.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Low quality DVD with cobbled together footage with no Lennon music, 25 Dec 2008
By DF McCleland (Johannesburg, South Africa) - See all my reviews
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This DVD is very disappointing. The footage seems to be randomly spliced together & seems to represent any random footage that the producers were able to get hold of. There is none of Lennon's music as background music. All in all an amateurish production not worth while watching. I wish that I had read a review before purchasing such rubbish.
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